GMC Number

Contact details

Related services

Biography

Dr Orteu was educated at the Lyçée Français de Londres and trained in Medicine at the London Hospital Medical College, qualifying in 1987. She undertook dermatology training at the Royal Free and Royal London Hospitals (CCST 1999) and received her MD in immunodermatology awarded 1999 after 2 years as a Jules Thorne Fellow. UK trainee representative to the British Association of Dermatologists 1997-1999. She was awarded Geoffrey Dowling Fellowship for a year as a clinical research fellow in connective tissue disease and Immunodermatology at the University of British Columbia (2000). She is currently a consultant dermatologist at the Royal Free since January 2001. Dr Orteu undertakes a weekly general dermatology clinic and a weekly skin surgery list (removing moles, cysts and skin cancers). Her main areas of interest are in the field of complex medical dermatology: connective tissue diseases (CTDs) particularly localised scleroderma, “pseudoscleroderma” and overlap CTDs, and lysosomal storage disorders, in particular fabry disease. She undertakes a weekly connective tissue disease skin clinic and a twice monthly connective issue disease clinic jointly with rheumatology colleagues in which she sees secondary and tertiary referrals with complex CTDs. Dr Orteu lectures on localised scleroderma and scleroderma-like diseases as well as on the cutaneous aspects of fabry disease to physicians, rheumatologists and dermatologists in the UK and abroad. Dr Orteu has published principally on the immunological mechanisms involved in the generation of chronic cutaneous inflammation and auto-immunity, localized scleroderma and scleroderma-like diseases, and on the cutaneous manifestations of fabry disease.